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Letter to the editor: Did voters really want to ban hospital leg restraints on prisoners?

Here is what 308,784 voters saw on the November 2021 ballot, which banned the use of leg restraints in hospital emergency rooms: “Shall the Allegheny Code Chapter 205, Allegheny County Jail be amended ...
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Letter to the editor: Leg restraints, hospital safety and social stigma

The Allegheny County Jail is the only jail in Pennsylvania in which officers cannot use leg restraints to secure individuals from jail on a visit to the hospital because of a 2022 referendum. Sheriffs ...
Becker's Hospital Review

CMS: South Dakota mental hospital workers misused restraints

A federal inspection determined patients’ rights were violated at the South Dakota Human Services Center in Yankton — a state-run mental health hospital — when workers misused restraints to control ...
Forbes

Office Of The Inspector General’s Report On Federal Prison Restraints

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General ...
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Seclusion rooms, restraints used with little documentation in N.B. psych hospital

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's ombudswoman released a damning report Tuesday on the province's use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in adult psychiatric facilities, practices she said ...